# Fee & Payments ### **How Fee and Payment Works** * 10% HackenProof operational and judging fee (onboarding, maintenance, advisory, reports validation, final report) * Pay rewards in stablecoin, fiat, or your own token/coin * We'll also require a 100% refundable deposit to ensure that the company will pay for the audit. ### Payments for valid reports * 40% for critical issues * 30% for high issues * 15% for medium issues * 5% gas optimization issues, best practices #### Example for 1000 LOC and a $15 000 budget: * $6 000 for critical issues * $4 500 for high * $2 250 for medium * $750 for gas optimization issues, best practices * $1 500 for operational and judging fee ### **Audit Cancellation:** We don't have a rescheduling fee, in case the new start day is less than 60 days away, otherwise, it goes under the cancellation rules * If you cancel more than 10 days before the start date → 95% deposit refund * If you cancel 5 - 10 days before the audit start date → 90% deposit refund * If you cancel less than 5 days before the audit start date → 80% deposit refund --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.hackenproof.com/crowdsourced-audit/fee-and-payments.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.